It was all such an easy column to block out – until I got to the E-Wave part.

Just out from Census:

Building Permits
Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,354,000. This is 2.8 percent below the revised June rate of 1,393,000 and is 5.7 percent below the July 2024 rate of 1,436,000. Single-family authorizations in July were at a rate of 870,000; this is 0.5 percent above the revised June figure of 866,000. Authorizations of units in buildings with five units or more were at a rate of 430,000 in July.

Housing Starts
Privately-owned housing starts in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,428,000. This is 5.2 percent (±14.7 percent)* above the revised June estimate of 1,358,000 and is 12.9 percent (±13.6 percent)* above the July 2024 rate of 1,265,000. Single-family housing starts in July were at a rate of 939,000; this is 2.8 percent (±11.8 percent)* above the revised June figure of 913,000. The July rate for units in buildings with five units or more was 470,000.

After the data, initial market reaction was meh…

And with that, we notice market futures were soft ahead of data. Gold and silver were stuck in meh.  And Bitcoin was thrashing $115,500 ish in the early slog.

A little Kool-Aid with your coffee today? S&P Reaffirms US Credit Rating Amid ‘Meaningful Tariff Revenue,’ But Says Fed Independence Key To Long-Term Outlook. Powell speech Friday should be fun.

Wonder if such events impact drug dealer sales?  We assume you know about the 2021 eDarkTrends study. But have you been tracking Biba, 2025?  Full article: Exploring Public Sentiments of Psychedelics Versus Other Substances: A Reddit-Based Natural Language Processing Study

News Object Management

One of the biggest leaps in computing took place when programmers (back in the day) started using “sprites” in C64 programming.  It has actually changed human thought.

Let’s go back to the 1980s to read you in.  Not everyone’s a geek.

Began in the late 70s when kids were hammering on Commodore 64s, a “sprite” was a small, movable block of pixels the video chip could draw independent of the background. That little hardware trick was revolutionary: instead of redrawing an entire screen every frame, you could declare a thing — a spaceship, a ball, a character — give it coordinates, and let the chip handle the messy bookkeeping of display. A sprite was, in effect, an early “object”: bundled state (x/y position, color, shape) plus implicit behaviors (move, collide, redraw).  Sprites took on a life of their own growing in complexity…

Fast forward a few decades and that simple idea evolved into full-blown object-oriented programming. Instead of hardcoding everything as (verbose) static pixels or lines of instructions, programmers define classes of objects with properties and methods — not just where a ship sprite is, but how it accelerates, shoots, or interacts. Today’s OOP (object-oriented programming) languages (C++, Java, Python) are the great-grandchildren of early C64 sprites: the same idea that a world is built out of discrete, self-contained actors that carry their own rules. What began as a trick to save CPU cycles became a universal way of thinking — domains composed of objects, each with measurement, behavior, and relationships.

The nifty part – that I noticed evolving insider of me personally (in my news-chasing days) was the evolution of NOTE (News Object Theory Examples).  It began naturally (OK, cynically too) as using the same “writing template” for baseball stories as the daily “body counts” from the Vietnam war. Not only did that allow compact manipulation of concept, but it also revealed new information about how both sporting statistics and war  destruction stories fed into a desensitization of the public.

I’m uses nes object theory a lot.  Because it allows me to cover a huge amount of ground in a most compact manner.  Let’s apply it to the day and see where it leads.  Admitting, our Housing/Finance summary was also a “news object” that we compiled (there’s that computing term!) from a fresh press release and a check of futures markets.

Nows OBJ Tracker

News Object: Ukraine

News Object: Hurricane Erin

• Attribute Changes: X-Y coordinates

News Object:  Air Canada Strike

News Object: Political Distractions

News Object: Political Hate Mongering

Sure, this is all a very compact way to view “the day’s news” but there is almost nothing an individual can do about most of it until next election cycles and even that has become sketchy with stories like Elon Musk Baby Mama Ashley St. Clair Says She’s ‘Getting Evicted’ threading the ridge between clickbait and news….

Of course, tracking the day’s news as objects is one thing. Tracking your own energy waves as objects — that’s another story.  I know…let’s do THAT.

At the Ranch: Harnessing E-Waves

Is there such a thing as personal energy waves? I call ’em “e-waves.” Been focusing on them a bit.

This morning, I was up at 2:00 AM, fresh pot of coffee done by 2:30. Amped and back in the office I fell deep into the (book) Domain Work draft. Time stops headspace; it’s a magical place.

Eleven hours Sunday, too: tossing sentences, metaphors, high concept, and frameworks into the pot. Any sane person would call that “battery abuse.” Mania, maybe. Me? I call it riding an energy wave.

Here’s the thought experiment: what if these “waves” aren’t just metaphor? Suppose each of us really does generate a kind of personal energy field — not mystical woo-woo thing, just plain metabolic, circadian, electrochemical rhythms. You know when you’re lit-up: ideas come faster than keystrokes, the universe feels like it’s nudging you forward. But the waves pass and as they do? You realize the wave has passed, you come down, you’re flat-lining: the brain turns tapioca, the body mutters “nap.” I’ve noticed the eyes go first…

Right now, society runs on time-domain tyranny: clocks, shifts, deadlines, school bells, factory whistles, apps, Alexa – they’re all in on it.

OK, sure: it was efficient for railroads and steel mills. But it ignores the obvious: humans are not Swiss watches. We can operate as free-running oscillators with wide variances. Some spike at dawn, some at midnight, some only when the moon is high and jazz is playing. My powers up with coffee a little before 3 AM.

So what happens if we unplug from clock-time and instead sync to our e-waves — our personal energy equations? Imagine a society where work, school, and even markets ran not on 9-to-5, but on peak waves per person. The baker might hit his stride at 3 AM, while the accountant surges at noon, and the poet only fires on cylinders between 10 PM and 2 AM. That crash would be an hour or two after bars close…

Nikola Tesla rode e-waves; claiming he needed only two hours of sleep, often collapsing from sheer exhaustion. Winston Churchill kept a “biphasic” schedule: late nights of writing and strategy, followed by a long nap in the afternoon that he swore doubled his productivity. Thomas Edison bragged that sleep was a waste of time, catnapping in his lab while driving teams of assistants to keep the lights on (literally). Elon Musk has admitted to marathon work binges, sometimes clocking 100-hour weeks during crunch periods. These figures weren’t bound to the 9-to-5—they surfed their peaks, and while some burned out spectacularly, others bent history on the back of their irregular hours.

Not everyone is so “free-running” with clocks.  There’s an impression that Donald Trump might be one of these “24-hour worker” sorts. However, a deeper look at his hours reveals a surprisingly compact span. Analysis shows he averaged just over six hours per day—from first appointment to last—a lower figure than nearly any president since FDR. In his early years, it was a bit higher (around 6?h?53?min), but trends toward even fewer hours by his final year of the first term.  His executive time is where he does his “object organizing” – watching news and doing calls, interviews and directing his “show.”

Can it work? Dunno.  Never given in to it. Worth a try?  Lots to consider here:

On the pro side, productivity might skyrocket. Instead of dragging through trough hours, people would only work when peaking. Creativity could explode, with whole domains of thought emerging when minds align with their natural cadence. Health might improve, because there would be less stress fighting clocks and more rest when the body demands it.

On the con side? Coordination would be tough. How do you hold a meeting when one person’s wave crests at dawn and another’s at midnight? Commerce might unravel, since stock markets depend on synchronized trading. Imagine trying to settle trades when Wall Street is asleep but Seoul Street is in a surge. Families could fracture too. Parenting already feels like herding cats. Add asynchronous energy spikes, and you drown in chaos.

Maybe it’s not all-or-nothing. What if society evolved into energy clusters? Groups form around overlapping peaks: the Dawn Guild, the Midnight Guild, the Afternoon Order. Within each, synchronization is easy. Across groups, you’d have wave translators — people trained to ride two peaks and bridge them. Technology could help. AI schedulers could map everyone’s personal circadian signature and build dynamic meshes: “Your team’s overlap window is 2:17–4:08 PM; use it wisely.” That’s when the meetings happen.

Cities could evolve into wave districts, buzzing at different hours, always alive. Energy isn’t lost — it’s staggered. Might even up things like grid power distribution, too. Could we see the emergence of “day clubs” as a counterpoint to night clubs?

If we ever unplug from the tyranny of clock-time, society wouldn’t collapse —  but it would re-phase. Productivity might look patchy in the old sense, but in aggregate it could rival or exceed what rigid schedules give us now. We’d move from synchronized trains to asynchronous surfboards, each riding our own e-wave.

Would it be messy? Absolutely. Would it be more human? Almost certainly. Ah, but would it?  The sun comes up at regular times…maybe we need to set our lighting and feeding to natural cycles and might that in turn bring our e-waves into harmony with clocks?

Maybe that’s the real recharge — not sleeping at the ‘right’ time, but finally surfing our waves instead of fighting the clock. Or maybe, like Musk seems to show, it’s a pony you keep and only ride it when you need to or it’s really calling to you…

Write when it’s light,

George@Ure,.net